The Ether Review #46 — Curtis Yarvin & Galen Wolfe-Pauly on Urbit

Sometimes the urge to layer in-jokes into a podcast title is impossible to resist. . . and sometimes you go back and change it.

The effort to understand the significance of type based and functional programming languages led me to the Urbit project. This attempt to re-design the internet is one of a number of technologies that have evolved alongside blockchain and address some of the same problems. The Urbit developers’ focus on mechanical perfection is a sensibility worth observing.

The old title was inreference to Mike Goldin’s tweet about deterministic finite automata

This from the Urbit website:
“We believe controlling your own data, code and identity is the definition of digital freedom. We believe everyone needs digital freedom, not just a few hackers. We believe the only tool needed to solve this problem is a general-purpose server made for human beings.
Your urbit is your cryptographic identity, personal archive, application platform, and device hub. It’s as easy to manage as an iPhone.”

Content: Galen Wolfe-Pauly, Curtis Yarvin, Arthur Falls

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